Play Star Wars: The Old Republic FREE this weekend(17th till the 21st)

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http://www.swtor.com/weekendpass?sourceid=eag3770


FAQ(also posted below under spoiler):

http://www.swtor.com/info/faq/game#q400211

[customspoiler=FAQ]Weekend Pass Free Trial

If I previously played The Old Republic via the Friends of Star Wars: The Old Republic Trial, will I be able to participate in the Weekend Pass Free Trial?

No, an individual who has participated in any other free trial program, including Friends of Star Wars: The Old Republic Trial will be unable to participate in the Weekend Pass Free Trial.

What is the difference between the Friends of Star Wars: The Old Republic Trial and the Weekend Pass Free Trial?

The Friends of Star Wars: The Old Republic Trial is an opportunity offered to current and active players that have passed at least one billing cycle, to invite three (3) of their friends that have never played Star Wars: The Old Republic to participate in a seven (7)-day free trial. The Weekend Pass Free Trial is up to 4-days of free game play open anyone who has never had an active Game account.

How can I purchase the game?

You can visit buy.swtor.com and select your preferred edition of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Or simply visit your local games retailer. For a list of retailers visit buy.swtor.com.

What will happen to my account after the free trial experience?

Your account will be maintained on our system as inactive, unless you cancel your account completely.

Will my character get deleted after the Weekend Pass Free Trial experience?

No, there are no plans to immediately delete characters created as part of the Weekend Pass Free Trial. Should you decide to purchase the Game, your characters will still be on your account. We do however reserve the right to delete trial characters on abandoned trial accounts without notice.

What server types will be available?

All server types will be available: Player versus Environment (PVE), Player versus Player (PVP) and Role Playing (RP-PVE and RP-PVP). To learn more about these server types, see Help Center. If you already know anyone playing the Game, it is a good idea to find out what server they play on if you want to join them while you are in the trial.

When will I be notified that my Weekend Pass Free Trial experience has ended?

Your trial experience will end and you will be unable to login to the Game on the date specified on the Weekend Pass Free Trial Page.

What restrictions, if any, will be placed on a Weekend Pass Free Trial Account?

The following Game restrictions will be placed on your Weekend Pass Free Trial account for the duration of the trial:

A Weekend Pass Free Trial character cannot exceed level 15. The player will be notified via in-game notifications and chat message once they have hit the maximum level for the trial experience.
A Weekend Pass Free Trial character will only be able to play on their Origin World, Capital World, the Fleet, all Warzones, and in their first Flashpoint. A message box will appear if a character attempts to go outside of these areas.
A Weekend Pass Free Trial character will not be able to use general chat, trade chat, or PvP chat. The character will only be able to use local chat, group chat, guild chat, and reply to whispers.
A Weekend Pass Free Trial character will not be able to send or reply to mail by other trial characters. However, your character will be able to receive in-game mail during the trial.
A Weekend Pass Free Trial character will not be able to use the Galactic Trade Network or trade with other players.
A Weekend Pass Free Trial character will only be able to level their Crew Skills ranking to around 40.
A Weekend Pass Free Trial character will not be able to earn Legacy XP.
When does my Weekend Pass Free Trial begin and end ?

The start and end date for each Weekend Pass Free Trial period will be posted in the Weekend Pass Free Trial Page located at www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com/weekendpass. Your free trial period will start when you click “Start Trial Now” and will run until the closing time and date of the applicable Weekend Pass Free Trial period.

Will I need to sign up for a subscription to try the Weekend Pass Free Trial?

No, you do not need to enter any payment details or redeem a Game Time Code in order to play the Weekend Pass Free Trial. At any time during the Weekend Pass Free Trial you may purchase the Game and either sign up for a recurring subscription or enter a Game Time Code to enjoy the full Game. Unused Weekend Pass Free Trial time will expire after obtaining a subscription or redeeming a Game Time Code.

How do I sign up for the Weekend Pass Free Trial?

If the Weekend Pass is currently available, you can join by clicking the “Join Now” button on the Weekend Pass Free Trial Page. You will be prompted to create an account on www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com. An account verification email will be sent to the email address you provided and you will be directed to create a password. Once complete, you will be directed to your My Account page and asked to enter your contact information as well as between three (3) and five (5) secret security questions. Once the account creation process is completed, you will see a “Start Trial Now” button highlighted. Clicking the “Start Trial Now” button will begin the Game installation and your Weekend Pass Free Trial will begin.

How will I know if the Weekend Pass Free Trial is available?

To find out if the Weekend Pass Free Trial is open, simply check www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com/weekendpass. Dates and times for the weekend trials will be announced here along with the start time and date of each Weekend Pass Free Trial. If the Weekend Pass Free Trial is unavailable, you will be unable to click the “Join Now” button located on this page.

Who is eligible to try The Weekend Pass Free Trial?

Anyone who has never had an active Game account for Star Wars: The Old Republic is eligible for the Weekend Pass Free Trial. There is a limit of one free trial per account. Weekend Pass Free Trial accounts cannot participate in any other free trial program.

What is the Weekend Pass Free Trial?

The Weekend Pass Free Trial is a weekend free game play trial for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. The trial is open to new accounts only. You cannot have an active, pending or closed game trial account. If eligible, you can download and play the game for free for up to 4-days. The start date and time of each Weekend Pass Free Trial will be posted in the Weekend Pass Trial Page located at www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com/weekendpass.[/customspoiler]
 
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I play; it's a decent game; is it worth 15 a month, I honestly don't know. I have unsubscribed but got my jedi knight to 50 and completed the class missions. It is fun gets repetitive quick!
 
my son has been begging me to get this for him. i'll let him try it this weekend to see if it's really something he wants to spend his money on.
 
Thanks IATCG. Gonna try this as well this weekend. May be a free to play MMORPG soon enough.

But damn, 25 GB download.
 
They should have gone with the Guild Wars 2 business model with this game (Pay $60 but with no subscription fee). I played for the first 30 days and didn't renew. I would have gladly still played it, but there just wasn't enough content to justify the subscription fee.

Thanks for the post IATCG.
 
I subbed for 4 months. If you like MMOs and Bioware games, you will enjoy this....for a while. Just keep in mind this really is a single player game they converted to an MMO. In my opinion, it doesn't have lasting appeal.
 
How many of these free weekends are they going to have? It doesn't really seem worthwhile given the size of the download, especially since you can only participate in one of these.
 
[quote name='Bosamba']They should have gone with the Guild Wars 2 business model with this game (Pay $60 but with no subscription fee).[/QUOTE]
Yeah, except for who controls the license. Lucas would never allow it.
 
[quote name='vlv723']But damn, 25 GB download.[/QUOTE]

Wow that's huge, I want to give it a try but a 25GB download will take forever on my connection
 
I've played a bit of this game and I thought it was fine for giving you a decent story (especially for SWKOTOR fans) in MMO trappings.

But its MMO trappings are subpar compared to other games, especially WoW. I don't think it's worth the $15 per month. I played a few months after release and it was virtually a single player experience for me, which is fine by me since that's what I wanted. I wish they'd just released a single player sequel to KOTOR instead that I could pay for once and not pay monthly for.
 
[quote name='Flacksguy']Well, my motto is:
If it's free it's for me

So I'll give this a try after work.[/QUOTE]

Weird. Mine is:

If it's free, then it's for me, and I'll take three.

*hoard*
 
Been playing a couple hours in, playing a bounty hunter. Game is pretty fun, but yeah seems like a single player game where you can see other players running around doing single player tasks. They probably should have adopted the Diablo 3 experience rather than make it an mmo. But greed told them they could soak people for 60+ for the software and another 15 a month, I personally don't think I'll play beyond the free weekend unless I can get the software for 10 or 20 and maybe play for a month or 2 to complete a couple of different characters missions.
 
I like the OP and his contributions but one star thread for the terribad game. Get to 50, get battlemaster....game over.

Enjoy your 100 million dollar SINGLE PLAYER online RPG. Even with a guild of almost 100 (recruits and members) couldn't save this shit game for me.
 
Might be cool

I have a gut feeling that TOR will go free to play here soon.
Also they patched the best bug in the game a while ago :(
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They still have over a million subscribers so it's not a failure, but just not the mega success they expected. I doubt it'll go free to play since they haven't even started merging servers yet. And Warhammer, another EA mmo still hasn't gone free to play.
 
[quote name='LazyTriangle']Wow that's huge, I want to give it a try but a 25GB download will take forever on my connection[/QUOTE]

even with fios i think that will take a while for me too...
 
Wish I'd have seen this last night. Hopefully it'll DL during the day and when I get home will be done... that's just a massive DL right there.
 
[quote name='Thongsy']They still have over a million subscribers so it's not a failure, but just not the mega success they expected.[/QUOTE]
2.1 down to 1.2. Pro-tip: losing almost half your playerbase in the first quarter is not growth.
 
[quote name='Jodou']2.1 down to 1.2. Pro-tip: losing almost half your playerbase in the first quarter is not growth.[/QUOTE]

In bizarro world it is.
 
[quote name='Jodou']2.1 down to 1.2. Pro-tip: losing almost half your playerbase in the first quarter is not growth.[/QUOTE]

I never said the game was growing and in fact besides WoW and EVE, MMOs lose population over their lifetime from the first month so this is normal. Having a population of 1 million plus would've been deemed a great success but because of the crazy stupid numbers WoW has it's now a failure.
 
I subbed for 4 months, but now my server is a ghost town, so I'm waiting for a server merge. Other than that it's a terrific game!
 
[quote name='Sgt Barone']I subbed for 4 months, but now my server is a ghost town, so I'm waiting for a server merge. Other than that it's a terrific game![/QUOTE]

Have you played since launch? If by terrific you mean terrible then I agree.

I loved this game and spent more time playing it per week then my full-time job.

Gets old fast. No sandbox, no user based content. I would have much rather prefered a KOTOR III.
 
[quote name='Thongsy']I never said the game was growing and in fact besides WoW and EVE, MMOs lose population over their lifetime from the first month so this is normal. Having a population of 1 million plus would've been deemed a great success but because of the crazy stupid numbers WoW has it's now a failure.[/QUOTE]
My point was there's a bigger picture and I don't see them retaining a comfortable profit margin for long.
 
I don't know what it is (besides my server that has never had more than 100 people on at once), but I feel this game is more repetitive than most MMO's.

I enjoyed the beta, and the differences it had from other MMO's, but having played a Jedi Knight to 50 and a Sage to 14 right now, it just feels like an on-rails single player game now.

Crafting is non-existent. You hit a button and pay lots of money to have one of your NPC companions go look for crafting mats, he returns sometime later. In the upper tiers, he won't return for over an hour. Then you hit another button for him to go make the item when you have all the mats. He will again return in an hour. There are so many schematics, but they are all generic names (Might Hilt 22).

Though their is different gear in the game, the only gear you will use is the modifiable gear that all has the same base stats and you just put in class specific mods. There are 3 - 4 modifiable slots in each piece, but you are basically looking for the same modification to put in each piece of gear. I'm a jedi knight sentinel, so I look for a bunch of might and assault enhancements. Every two levels, I look for or craft the next modification and stick it in the same armor I had the other one in. There's really never the sense you're going to get a really cool piece of gear.

Though playing an MMO, it feels like a single player RPG. The problem with that is that you never get that badass superman feeling you would have playing a single-player one. There will always be guys standing on some corner somewhere that you can't hope to take down alone, but in the story you take down every sith lord you encounter. Kind of a disconnect I had trouble rectifying.

PVP isn't bad, but it's a game of crowd control. You will spend more time stunned then you will fighting if you are taking on more than one person. And it takes a real pro to win a 2 on 1 fight. 3 on 1, doesn't matter how good you are, you will barely get a hit off between the stuns.
 
[quote name='Jodou']My point was there's a bigger picture and I don't see them retaining a comfortable profit margin for long.[/QUOTE]

I'm not actually sure they're making a profit right now, or at least not a comfortable one. I remember reading a month or two back that they needed a population of at least a million to pay for upkeep and current development. So considering the $200 million or however much it originally cost to develop they're in a world of trouble if they need a million strong population just for upkeep.

With my seemingly pro-EA phase out of the way, this game is terrible. It is mostly a single player experience. 90% of the content is wholly soloable with the group stuff being a pain to do since they have a very piss-poor LFG interface. And to do the main group quests you need to hang back on the fleet hoping to get a party together so you can't actually do anything but sit around and wait on the fleet. And as you advance in level expect each planet to have less and less people on it and thus less and less grouping and chatter till around a dozen or less at the final planet.

Then there is the suppose major strength of this game which is the story but each class story is only about 10 percent if even that of the journey to 50 so you'll be doing 90% of the same quests over and over. And then then the bugs which I won't get into. Yea, this game has problems.
 
I think once 1.3 is out (LFG Tool & free server transfers) and people are sick of Diablo 3 (I already am, that's another story though), they'll return to check out what's new. There's not a whole lot on the horizon besides Guild Wars 2's beta weekends, there won't be anything new concerning world of warcraft until the expansion launch and the Tera hype seems to be dying down now.
 
[quote name='KrayzieKMF']They should have done this before d3... I want to try it but I am still going through my first play through of d3.[/QUOTE]
Except they have. . .to the tune of one month every weekend was F2P. Hell, when 1.2 came out they gave EVERYONE a free week, unsubbed or not.
 
[quote name='Jodou']Except they have. . .to the tune of one month every weekend was F2P. Hell, when 1.2 came out they gave EVERYONE a free week, unsubbed or not.[/QUOTE]

I built a new computer specifically for d3 late last month so I must have missed them all.
 
[quote name='KrayzieKMF']I built a new computer specifically for d3 late last month so I must have missed them all.[/QUOTE]
Our guild was joking that the game had already gone F2P since the trials have been non-stop. They're desperate.
 
[quote name='Calipso']Have you played since launch? If by terrific you mean terrible then I agree.

I loved this game and spent more time playing it per week then my full-time job.

Gets old fast. No sandbox, no user based content. I would have much rather prefered a KOTOR III.[/QUOTE]


It's a terrible game that gets old fast...yet you loved it and spent over 40 hours a week playing it? What? That's about the most contradictory statement I've ever heard.

"It's a stupid movie, and it drags out for too long. But I loved every minute of it!"
 
[quote name='Edge']It's a terrible game that gets old fast...yet you loved it and spent over 40 hours a week playing it? What? That's about the most contradictory statement I've ever heard.

"It's a stupid movie, and it drags out for too long. But I loved every minute of it!"[/QUOTE]

Or you could watch a movie that started out great with a sucky ending. I think that's what he was going for.
 
[quote name='The Carrot Cake Kid']Or you could watch a movie that started out great with a sucky ending. I think that's what he was going for.[/QUOTE]

There's just so much negativity these days you have to wonder why people even play most video games anymore if they can't have fun for very long.
 
Either I just don't like MMO's in general (VERY possible) or I didn't have the patience to play until it got "good". Tried the Jedi Knight class, played for a couple hours, and then uninstalled. Didn't feel like a Bioware product to me, idk. I think it was the complete absence of dialogue trees. I didn't know shit about anything, and couldn't ask either. I know that's typical for MMO's, but I was expecting more from this for some reason.
 
[quote name='Edge']It's a terrible game that gets old fast...yet you loved it and spent over 40 hours a week playing it? What? That's about the most contradictory statement I've ever heard.

"It's a stupid movie, and it drags out for too long. But I loved every minute of it!"[/QUOTE]

Not particularly. The first few weeks or early months of playing it, it's great. Great story, interesting planets. Then everything hits you at once when you get to 50 and rank up your valor. Your character is now useless.

I made another sith character but then the hard feel of a forced storyline and lack of user created content kicked in. Mix it with boring warzones (non-ranked) and the nightmare that is Ilum and PVP, my enthusiasm and enjoyment died fast.

I have touched the game once since end of March. I can't even sell my 8 million in credits because there is no longer a demand on any of the gold buying/selling websites for SWTOR credits.

It's a theme-park "MMO" RPG that can be beaten without a single interaction with another subscriber. You can ignore everyone you see in the fleet and on planets and still quest through your storyline.

It's sad. This game had so much potential. $100 million....for this. I spent too much time leveling up to Battlemaster for the higher tier gear (my sith warrior is all battlemaster besides the lightsaber). and I felt like I achieved NOTHING. At least in SWG (Pre-CU) your accomplishments in the world of the game had something behind them.
 
I maxed out my level in 3 weeks. Quests are lame/boring, story is lame/boring. I don't think your character story arc should max out the way it did in this game. It was way to easy to complete your story arc. Nothing to do past 50 unless you want to play battlegrounds and get better gear for no reason.
 
[quote name='ryanflucas']Deal is dead. I clicked thinking I could play it free until the 21st but it says weekend free trial is now closed.[/QUOTE]

Don't worry, there will be another free weekend. And another. And another. (And so on.)

Personally, I wouldn't even bother to download it, there are much better ways to spend your time.
 
I tried it for a few hours and just couldnt get into it. It felt like a low quality kotor. I saw no need to talk to other players. I dont even know if i would play this very long if it was free. I wish they had made a KOTOR 3 but i guess that would have competed with ME3.
I see this game as a killing blow for the Old Republic story line and franchise in video games.
 
I loved every minute of this game. Been playing since beta and I love it. However, I havent put in any game time in about 3 weeks only because I found myself falling into the MMO trap with the carrot on a stick.

I stopped playing only because of my very limited gaming time which doesnt work out to well when playing any MMO.
 
[quote name='fester']Don't worry, there will be another free weekend. And another. And another. (And so on.)

Personally, I wouldn't even bother to download it, there are much better ways to spend your time.[/QUOTE]

This.

I wanted to give it another try since 1.2, but because I previously took advantage of the Friend Trial, it wouldn't let me. Makes sense, but it wouldn't hurt to "reset" everyone's trial status occasionally so that when Bioware releases new content, everyone can get a sneak-peek.

Some might even subscribe.
 
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